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Reporters Notebook: Digital Home in the Spotlight

SAN FRANCISCO—The Connections Digital Home Conference & Showcase here has covered a potpourri of topics—IP television capabilities, telephone companies struggle to offer the same...

Cisco-Linksys President Touts the Digital Home

In his keynote speech at the Connections Digital Home Conference, Cisco-Linksys President Charlie Giancarlo talked about the blurring of lines between consumer electronics devices...

Microsoft Bolsters XP Wireless Security

Microsoft has released an update to Windows XP Service Pack 2 that fortifies the operating systems wireless networking security through the adoption of Wi-Fi...

Faulty Microsoft Update Rekindles Patch Quality Concerns

For Microsoft, delivering high-quality security patches in a timely manner has always been a lose-lose predicament.If patches for major software vulnerabilities take too long,...

Yoga Suit Settlement Beggars Open Source Ideals

A group of independent yoga instructors has quietly settled a lawsuit that waved the banner of the open source software movement in their effort...

Researchers Reveal Holes in Grid

New research into security weaknesses in a popular secure remote access technology highlights the vulnerability of large-scale computing environments such as grids and supercomputing...

Microsoft, Sun Update Their Technical Cooperation Work

Microsoft and Sun on Friday provided the second update of their yearlong technical cooperation work, with Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer summing up the...

Oracle Makes Good on Promise of Continued PeopleSoft Development

Oracle Corp. on Wednesday delivered the next iteration of PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, thus taking a step onto the road to Project Fusion. Project Fusion...

IBMs Mattos: The Metadata Story Has Jelled

Analysts say that following the Ascential acquisition—only the latest in a string of acquisitions over the past years—IBM is well on its way to...

IBM Aims to Ease Server Management

After finding a disappointing adoption rate of 29 percent for its Intel-based server hardware management software, IBM set out to determine what users really...